Thanks for your help - i really appreciate your supportive and helpful comment. As it happens, my help files don't work, which i've approached Finale about, and it's a problem they are having with my op system. So for the mean time, I am trying to fumble my way through. And every now and then, I just can't figure something out, so I (heavens forbid) ask a question on a forum.
Yes this post is rife with sarcasm.